--- Forwarded Message from "Ovidiu Hurduzeu, Ph.D" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:47:25 -0500 >From: "Ovidiu Hurduzeu, Ph.D" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #8651 "Clean" movies >To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >cc: Ovidiu Hurduzeu <[log in to unmask]> I think I do not share Professor Ledgerwood's suggestion to "clean up" strong language in foreign language movies. If we consider a certain movie to be inappropriate for our high schools students to watch, we do not show it at all instead of "mutilating" it. For instance, is such a great movie like "La Haine" inappropriate to show to our juniors or seniors in the French class because of its strong language? ( La Haine is a French movie about the life in a Paris ghetto, banlieu). I remind Professor Ledgerwood that "La Haine" 'strong language is the REAL language used in the banlieu. I would rather change the sanitized, tourist like view that our world language textbooks feed to our kids. Don't you think that American kids are sheltered too much from the harsh realities of the outside world? *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************